Wednesday, December 27, 2017
Dec. 27th, 2017 08:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bearshortyAfter Thanksgiving everyone around here from my Mom to Bear to me had a cold. (Tanya had it first over Thanksgiving weekend and Olivia never got it, most likely because of my milk). That was pretty miserable. But at least it was just really annoying and I was fine at work. Because over this Christmas break, I actually got pretty sick.
My nose started running on the 24th by the afternoon but I thought it was allergies. My in-laws have three cats in the house whom they keep in the basement for Olivia's sake, while we visit. And Tanya likes to play in the basement because her doll house is there and my friend T sent Tanya a kinetic sand toy, which we took with us and set up in the basement. And so I spent a bit of time playing with Tanya there. So I thought it was allergies. By the evening I looked up what I could take (Claritin is OK , Claritin D is not). Bear went to the store to get me Claritin and it did help the dry mouth but my nose kept running and my throat was irritated. So Christmas was a bit miserable. We got back home Monday night and I was still hoping it were allergies but by Tuesday morning, my throat was not happy with me. I went to work and drank lots and lots of tea but my voice was not pretty by this point and I was feeling very meh and cold and tired. It doesn't help that the weather outside is very freezing.
By the end of the work day yesterday I knew I should take a sick day today. Both Larisa and my boss were all for it so I'm home today and probably tomorrow. When I got home I actually measured my temperature and it was 100.9 so it was definitely time to take it easy and go to bed. It is very boring to lie in bed all day. I'm not super sick but sick enough. And it's only 8:30. My Mom is here to take care of the kids. I will probably read and nap and maybe watch something.
Christmas itself was pretty nice, aside from me feeling like crap. We woke up and I got the girls dressed in pretty dresses and we went downstairs to see an empty milk glass and a tiny bit of carrot left with cookies gone. And lots of presents under the tree. One present - a wooden train track from IKEA was all set up and ready to play with. We open the presents slowly, most of the day, so no one feels overwhelmed. Tanya also got a unicorn puzzle, figurines from Frozen, Jacob's ladder, sewing game and a talking bear that will still need to be activated. She also got Cyrillic magnetic letters from my brother in law. Olivia got a musical seahorse, Mickey shapes and a couple of teething rings. Of course, she just wanted to chew on the wrapping paper.
When Tanya was first playing with her train, the sun was just rising and I was in the kitchen making her soup for later. We lifted the window shades to see a little bit of falling snow. It didn't last but that was a magical moment.
I gave Bear his presents: Spiderman Homecoming DVD, cables for his game system and a tiny arcade game. We gave me Wonder Woman DVD that I wanted. I also got the latest Sam Smith CD, a book about New York bridges, a book of Turner art, a subscription to National Geographic (I can read it at work now and I did miss it since I let my subscription lapse in May 2016), and a bracelet. I also got a Gryffindor bookmark and Carrie got me the Harry Potter cookbook that I already have, so she will return it and get me Amazon credit. That works too.
For brunch Bear and I made pancake breakfast as per Christmas tradition. I'm in change of scrambled eggs. Laurie and John (Bear's brother) joined us in the afternoon and we had appetizers and then pot roast. We had to drive back home after dinner but we managed everything well. Both girls fell asleep in the car and I put then back to bed when we got home. If not for being sick, it was a lovely Christmas.
My nose started running on the 24th by the afternoon but I thought it was allergies. My in-laws have three cats in the house whom they keep in the basement for Olivia's sake, while we visit. And Tanya likes to play in the basement because her doll house is there and my friend T sent Tanya a kinetic sand toy, which we took with us and set up in the basement. And so I spent a bit of time playing with Tanya there. So I thought it was allergies. By the evening I looked up what I could take (Claritin is OK , Claritin D is not). Bear went to the store to get me Claritin and it did help the dry mouth but my nose kept running and my throat was irritated. So Christmas was a bit miserable. We got back home Monday night and I was still hoping it were allergies but by Tuesday morning, my throat was not happy with me. I went to work and drank lots and lots of tea but my voice was not pretty by this point and I was feeling very meh and cold and tired. It doesn't help that the weather outside is very freezing.
By the end of the work day yesterday I knew I should take a sick day today. Both Larisa and my boss were all for it so I'm home today and probably tomorrow. When I got home I actually measured my temperature and it was 100.9 so it was definitely time to take it easy and go to bed. It is very boring to lie in bed all day. I'm not super sick but sick enough. And it's only 8:30. My Mom is here to take care of the kids. I will probably read and nap and maybe watch something.
Christmas itself was pretty nice, aside from me feeling like crap. We woke up and I got the girls dressed in pretty dresses and we went downstairs to see an empty milk glass and a tiny bit of carrot left with cookies gone. And lots of presents under the tree. One present - a wooden train track from IKEA was all set up and ready to play with. We open the presents slowly, most of the day, so no one feels overwhelmed. Tanya also got a unicorn puzzle, figurines from Frozen, Jacob's ladder, sewing game and a talking bear that will still need to be activated. She also got Cyrillic magnetic letters from my brother in law. Olivia got a musical seahorse, Mickey shapes and a couple of teething rings. Of course, she just wanted to chew on the wrapping paper.
When Tanya was first playing with her train, the sun was just rising and I was in the kitchen making her soup for later. We lifted the window shades to see a little bit of falling snow. It didn't last but that was a magical moment.
I gave Bear his presents: Spiderman Homecoming DVD, cables for his game system and a tiny arcade game. We gave me Wonder Woman DVD that I wanted. I also got the latest Sam Smith CD, a book about New York bridges, a book of Turner art, a subscription to National Geographic (I can read it at work now and I did miss it since I let my subscription lapse in May 2016), and a bracelet. I also got a Gryffindor bookmark and Carrie got me the Harry Potter cookbook that I already have, so she will return it and get me Amazon credit. That works too.
For brunch Bear and I made pancake breakfast as per Christmas tradition. I'm in change of scrambled eggs. Laurie and John (Bear's brother) joined us in the afternoon and we had appetizers and then pot roast. We had to drive back home after dinner but we managed everything well. Both girls fell asleep in the car and I put then back to bed when we got home. If not for being sick, it was a lovely Christmas.